By request of hefdaddy42, rank the albums by lyrical content here

[YtseBitsySpider]

1. Awake
2. I&W
3. WDADU
4. FII
5. 6DOIT
6. ToT
7. SFAM
8. BC&SL
9. OV
10. SC

This is the correct list.

[Chrissalix]

Awake
I&W - Are the best two. Props to Kev Moore but everyone pulled their weight on these.

6DOIT
WDADU - These are the next best two. Both fairly mixed in quality, some good some bad. Don't like the title track on 6. Reads like a textbook. Status Seeker has some of their best lyrics but is a weak song.

FII
ToT - Both fairly standard stuff

SFAM - Limited by the concept

8vm - getting...
SC - progressively...
BC&SL - worse...

[snowdog]

WDADU - while I do appreciate the lyrics here (SC and BCSL are the only albums where I truly cringe at a major part of the lyrics), they're just not as good as the other 7 albums. Too many songs by Dominici and Moore - and I don't appreciate the lyrics of either generally

In my opinion Moore was the best lyricist the band has ever had.  And on WDADU both LFAGU and OaMoT have awesome lyrics IMO.

If I were to rank the lyricists for the band it would be:

Kevin Moore
John Myung
John Petrucci
James LaBrie
Mike Portnoy (Though ACOS is really good).

[KevShmev]

1. Awake
2. I&W
3. WDADU
4. FII
5. 6DOIT
6. ToT
7. SFAM
8. BC&SL
9. OV
10. SC

This is the correct list.

*high fives YtseBitsySpider*